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It�s Official: Bilski Kills Software Patent

"According to Judge Gilford's ruling, DealerTrack
'appears to concede that the claims of the '427 Patent do not meet
the "transformation" prong of the Bilski test.' He then applied the
'specific machine' test and noted that, post-Bilski the Board of
Patent Appeals and Interferences has ruled several times that
'claims reciting the use of general purpose processors or computers
do not satisfy the [Bilski] test.' Judge Gilford analyzes the
claims of the '427 patent, notes that they state that the 'machine'
involved could be a 'dumb terminal' and a 'personal computer,' and
then concludes: 'None of the claims of the '427 Patent require the
use of a "particular machine," and the patent is thus invalid under
Bilski.'"